Housing shapes our health, opportunity, and communities.

Home Starts Here is a storytelling project developed by the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments in partnership with Health Resources in Action, the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, and the Greater Lowell Community Foundation. Our goal is to let community members of Greater Lowell learn from one another through sharing stories: stories of finding homes, stories of building homes, stories of losing homes, and any other stories of home.

Please use the options below to explore community members' stories or submit one of your own with text, image, or video or through an interactive story map!

Learn more about the project here.

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